Political Discourse and the 2020 U.S. Election
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society researchers Yochai Benkler and Robert Faris document how polarized media in the United States shape political discourse and the 2020 election.
So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?
Harvard experts in climate and the environment, including HLS Professor Jody Freeman, see reversals of Trump changes, more global leadership, political hurdles.
The details of autumn
A look at campus as we head into the final weeks of fall.
Reining in growing powers of the presidency
Bob Bauer and Professor Jack L. Goldsmith say experience with President Trump highlights need for long-overdue curbs.
Detecting dementia
Experts gathered this week to discuss the ethical, social, and legal implications of technological advancements that facilitate the early detection of dementia.
Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program scores a victory for asylum seekers
In recent court victory, students from the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program help safeguard the lives of countless asylum seekers by preventing more stringent federal immigration rules from going into effect.
What do Trump’s election denials and flurry of firings add up to?
Installing partisan loyalists into top defense and National Security Agency posts in a president’s final weeks in office is “completely unprecedented,” said Jack L. Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-author of “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” a new book about executive branch reforms.
Yuji Iwasawa LL.M. ’78 re-elected to the International Court of Justice
On Nov. 12, Japan’s Yuji Iwasawa LL.M. ’78 was re-elected to the International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s principal judicial body, with overwhelming support from the U.N. member states. He will serve a 9-year term.
Giving the Constitution a grade of C
Children’s book author Cynthia Levinson and her husband Sandy Levinson, a constitutional scholar and a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, have recently published “Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic Novel,” based on their 2017 constitutional law primer for young readers.
‘The Connected Parent’ offers guidance, insight into digital parenting
“The Connected Parent,” a new book by John Palfrey ’01 and Urs Gasser LL.M. ’03 is a practical guide for addressing concerns brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and navigating an increasingly digital world.